does Google analytics make a major effect on time to download a static web page?

Question

I understand that by simply adding a script to the end of the body tag of a html document one makes it processable by Google analytics. My question is, is this likely to hav

Answer 1

Sometimes I experience lags in pages that use it. I can track the problem to GA since it's the only script waiting to get loaded. I know this shouldn't happen but with some page requests it does rather randomly. Not that it usually matters since the whole page is already loaded so you can start reading. But it becomes a small problem with pages that use ajax or generaly do stuff on document ready event. So I add it to my adlock filters.